firstofitskind | MHA #6, Monday Morning

MHA #6, Monday Morning

After a couple of weird and busy weekends, in that order, it had been nice to have one that was just... normal. As normal as Fandom ever gets, anyway. So, you know. Nice, normal weekend, and hopefully a nice, normal week following it...

The weird thing, though, was that Liam was sleeping in. Really sleeping in, and not his usual "woke up and went for a run and then crawled back into bed to snuggle" or "woke up and read for a few hours", either. Genuine, honest-to-god, asleep sleeping in. Which was definitely the first clue that something was amiss, because that only ever happened on those weekends. You know the ones.

Except this was a Monday. And everyone knew the weird shit didn't happen on Mondays (unless the island was hopping through various alternate realities, of course.). So Liam could possibly be forgiven for not having any idea that anything was strange just yet, sleepily reaching for Verity to pull her in closer.

[ooc: for the girl. you know the one. and soooo much SP because work is a butt.]

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The nails were longer, leaving gooseflesh trailing up her back.

But the feeling she got when she twined their hands together?

The same, down to the way their hearts seemed to thud in unison.

And that last little lingering tendril of worry Liam had slipped away as their palms met, replaced by the love and affection flowing between them, through them.

"So, like, does this mean I'm bi now?" Verity teased, folding her fingers over Liam's and laughing.

“Certainly a little more flexible than you thought,” Liam teased right back. “Which you wouldn’t think would be possible, all things considered...”

"That sounds like a request to have me demonstrate my flexibility for you again," Verity said, waggling her eyebrows.

"Well," he grinned. "You know how much I love those demonstrations."

Verity grinned at him - and then that expression changed to something more nervous. A little shy.

"Is it okay if I don't, umm, leap into everything right away?" she asked, knowing Liam's answer but needing to hear it anyway. "I don't know how - I've never -"

Look, she was coming around to the idea of sex with her fiance in a woman's body, but she wasn't sure she was ready for everything.

"Of course," Liam said vehemently. "I'm never going to insist you do something you're not comfortable with, my love." They'd had this conversation, of course, but that didn't mean Liam wasn't aware of how important it was to have these things reiterated out loud, sometimes.

Especially when someone was faced with a whole concept they'd never considered before and was having small anxieties over it.

"I know, I know," Verity said with a small smile. "I'm just not used to being the one with no experience."

Oh god was she actually blushing now? Jesus Christmas she was.

And was Liam biting his lip to keep from grinning too widely at that blushing, because it was adorable? Maybe.

"I wouldn't say no experience," Liam pointed out. "After all, you know what a- body like this- responds to. That's a start."

"A start," Verity conceded.

But bodies were different even if parts were the same and she knew what she responded to, but not what Liam did, at least not like this and--

"Dammit," she muttered, "I'm supposed to be the cool one."

"Babe, hey. Hey," Liam said softly, brushing a hand across her cheek. "You're worrying too much."

Verity leaned against him and closed her eyes. "I don't mean to make a big deal out of this," she said. "Especially since you're not."

Liam considered that. "I think," he said slowly, "if I were fully human? I probably would be freaking out, right about now."

Verity was just going to grab that lifeline and cling to it. "Oh?"

"Well, yeah," Liam said, and now it was his turn to run a hand through her hair as he spoke. "I didn't grow up in a body the way you did. And- genetic memory, remember?"

He'd been about to say that he had all his mother's memories, but that felt, uh. Weird to bring up right now. Considering.

They were wearing way too few clothes to be referring to anyone's mother.

"That's fair," Verity said. "I just - it would make more sense if I were freaking out about bodies, exactly."

He'd kind of assumed that was the 'this' she'd meant, oops.

"So what's the part that does freak you out? Because if it's 'trying something unfamiliar' need I remind you of how I turned non-corporeal the first time we tried to go any further than kissing?"

It was and it wasn't. It was all complicated. Why were bodies (and gender and sexuality) so complicated?

Verity had to chuckle at the memory. "Fair enough," she said. "...I kinda feel like I did when the kids first showed up."

"And you worked through that," Liam reminded her. To the point that seeing them off this year had hurt in a way neither of them had exactly been expecting. "Just took you some time to process."

He tilted her face back towards his for a slow, gentle kiss. "And as curious as I am, I'm not interested in pushing you towards anything you're not ready for."

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"I know you wouldn't," Verity assured him. "I just...I'm uncertain and I'm mad at myself for being uncertain. Because you're you no matter what--"

She stopped as she realized that she'd finally hit at the core of what was bothering her. "You're you. And I told you that so long as you were you, I'd never falter. But here, I'm stumbling, at least, and it's over such a stupid thing." She laughed, shaking her head.

"It's not stupid," Liam said, shaking his head. Because even if he didn't really understand why it mattered, it was clear that it did.

"We'll go as far as you're comfortable with," Liam said. "I'll follow your lead." Which was not at all different from how they usually did things. Hell, it was the way Liam preferred it, and Verity knew it.

She smiled at that. "You know full well we'd be doing that anyway," she said.

"See?" he grinned. "Another thing that's stayed the same."

"You know, as if I needed more proof that you really are you," Verity teased.

Mind made up, she turned to Liam and deliberately kissed him, slow and deep.

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